Bath-cabinet.



, J. H. PRIDE.

I BATH CABINET APPLIOATIOI FILED BEN. 13, 1912.

Patented May 13. 1913.

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.31 n n'oRm-u citizeirof the -.United States, residing at' JoHN H. PRIDE, or KIDDER, scorn DAKOTA.

H-CABINET.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented May 13, 1913.

Application filed September 13, 1 912. Serial No. 720,192.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it'knownthat I, JoHN H. PRIDE, a

"Kidder, in the county of Marshalland State of South-Dakota, have invented a new and usefulBath-Cabinet, ofwhich the following is a specification.

- My invention relates to bathing cabinets,

and the object is toprovide a convenient and eiiicient cabinet in which a person may take either warm'or cold baths without having access to a regular bath room with bath tub and its usual connections, as "such regular bathing facilities are in many residences 15 towns and in the country.

not installed, especially so in suburbs, small In theaccompanying drawing,-Figure is an isometric view of my improved bathing cabinet with its door removed and its floor orplatform omitted. Fig. 2 is an inside elevation of the cabinet, the latter being intersected vertically on the line a -(r to thebathing brush. H

drawing by reference I Fig. 1. Fig. 3 isa vertical section as on the line 6 Fig. 4"of the upper and lower portions of the cabinet, looking toward the in *ner side of therear wall. Fig. 4 is a hori zontal' section of the cabinet near'above its 'fioo'r;

seatusedin the cabinet with its supporting Fig. 5 is a detail side -view of the bars in cross section. Fig, .6 is a horizontal section on the line cc Fig. 2. Fig. 7' shows a hose clamp for regulating the flow of water Referrin to 'the numerals, t e frame of the cabinet is made up of four upright posts 1,2, 3, at, which are preferably made of light angle-steel, these osts are connected by several horizontal races 5, which have their ends pivoted to the posts and'arc each at the middl'eprovided. with a knee-joint 6 which can fold onl upward from a horizontal line.

suc knee-bracesthe front wall has only the {only a dooropeningin the front, wall. Sai

top "one, shown in Fig. '2, andat the lower end a solid brace bar 7, which is pivoted at 8 and 'at its other end has a hook 9 engaging over the upper side of the stud '10. In horizontal planewith the latter bar 7 the rear posts have a similaa brace bar-11. Slidably andremovably moanted'upon ,the bars '7'and 11 are the legs 12-iof a seat 13, which the bather may :occupy when so'desired.

Suitably secured tothe frame work just described is a rubber covering 14 which forms all-the walls or sides of the cabinet, leaving as a suppo'rtin cloth 15, whose upper end 16 extends partly upon the inner side of thesolid top ortion let'of the front wall (as shown in ig. 2,)

door openingis closed by a piece of rubber and the lower end 17 of the'door extends downward within the'vertic'ali portion 18 of a sheet of rubber 19, which forms the .bot-

tom of the'cabinet and embraces the lower ends of all thefwalls" so that no water can be splashed out on the floor beyond the cabinet.

Therubbercanvas15 of the dpor is suit ably'secured to the .post 2a1rdlias its front edge secured between two metal strips 20, 21, (see Figs-6) the lower ends of which hold a grooved pulley 22 that rolls'on the bar 7 tra sk for the. door. edge of the rub erdo'or "securedbetween the strips 520, 21 does not extend'as; far as the strips but leaves a groove which receives the edge of the. post l, andas the rubber is also pressed against said edge a water-tight joint is obtained. The door is held insaid stretched or spread condition by two kneebraces 23, which are pivoted each with one end to the 0st 2 and the other end to the strip 20. he middle of said braces is pivotally'connected at'the joints 24 to a vertical rod 25, to whose upper endis secured The one end of a cord or'light chain 26, which is hanging overthe top of the front wall so that its outer end 27 may be reached by a person outside the cabinet who may'wish to open the'door by'raising' the knee joints 24. If the occupant. of the cabinet is sur that he does not need and doesnot wish for such assistance from the outside, he may pull the cord into the cabinet. 50 is a Hat weight at the lower end ofthe rod 25, to hold the door more securely shut by spreading it.

The rubber bottom 19 has a central apertu're 28, through which the water runs into a removable receptacle. which is put on the,

floor-29 of the room in which the cabinet is used} 30 1s a ring-shaped weight secured about the aperture 28 to cause the rubber floor to slog:

toward its center. The rub r floor is provided'wi 'h apertures'fitting tightly about the legs formed by the lower ends of the frame posts. To facilitate' such fitting. the rubber may bethicker as M31 in Fi 4 around the posts, and-each post is at. sai point'made square by having a block 32 secured in the groove of the angle-steel. Said blocks" also serve casings, ports for the four legs 33 ot a metal frame to whose lower end is attached a fountain clamp 42 placed on the hose.

brush 41, through the handle, stock and bristles more or less water will flow according as the flow may be regulated by a hose Such clamp may be of any desired form, but I prefer the form shown in Fig. 7, in which the hose is passed through a yoke 43 and flattened by a block 44:, moved by a screw 45 toward the bottom of the yoke. As for the exact structure of the bathing brush .I prefer the kind described in my application filed on even date herewith, Serial No. 720,193.

The top portion of the cabinet not closed by the supply tank 39 may be more or less covered by a rubber cloth 46, which may be normally rolled on a roller 4}- and may have its outer end provided withape-rtures adapted to-be placed upon two pegs 48, which project upward from the upper ends of the two frontcorner posts, 1 and 2.

In the operation or use of the cabinet, water of-the desired temperature is poured into thesupply tank 39, the bather enters the cabinet, closes the door, and while standing on the platform 35 or sitting on the seat 13, he rubs his body with the brush 41 while a suitable flow of water from the tank 39 emanates from all the bristles of the brush; as the water runs down from the body it passes either through the apertures in the platform or beyond the platform down upon the rubber floor, which guides it into thej' receptacle 29, and from there it is afterward poured either into a sink I or out on the ground, the-receptacle having two opposite handles like the one marked 49 in Fig. l, by which to carry the pan or receptacle.

After the bathing is done and the used water disposed of, the cabinet may be folded up and put away until it is needed again.

Such folding isdone byremovin'g the seat,

the platform, the supply tankand the" top cover 46, and then preferably inverting the cabinet so that the braces 7 andll will hang doifvnward parallel to the corner posts, and the knee-jointed braces will all bendiat their joints from their own gravity and thus draw the posts toward each other; the posts are then further brought 'to ejgher by hand as closely as the rubber'si'zfes; door and floor wil i h settingjubf-the cabinet ers'e of the same. tobe; used (with "v ry warm water,

is :may be met i t e be sufficiently rolled back from the supply tank tolet in the required amount of fresh air for the bathing person to inhale. The covering may also be further regulated by the bather as he may feel necessary from time to time.

To give some idea of the size of the cabinet, it should be about seven feet high and about three and one half feet wide and deep from front to rear.

It will be understood that the present illustrations embody only one form of my invention while many other forms or variations may be made without diverging from the scope and spirit of the invention; thus, for instance, the posts may be round tubes or they may be made of wood either round, square or triangular, a d the rubber cloth forming the top, wal and bottom may be any grade of rubberfl or even simply rubber cloth, or oil cloth, only it is waterproof materials, to prevent the water from getting on the floor or walls of the room in which the cabinet is used.

What' I claim is 1. A bath cabinet comprising a foldable body having four legs supporting it and provided with shoulders, a perforated detachable floor supported at its corners on body having four legs supporting it and provided with shoulders, a metal frame having four legs resting one on each of said shoulders, a wooden floor perforated and fixed upon said metal frame, a fiexibleintegral bottom fitting tightly about the legs and extending all over below the floor some distance from the same and having an aperture with a weight about it to hold the apertured portion of the bottom lower than the rest of it, and a drip aperture; the edges 0 'sai bottom being directed vertically upward about the outer side of the body of the cabinet.

3. A bath cabinet comprising a foldable body having legs'sup'porting-it and provided 3 with shoulders, a wooden floor having 4 'means for supporting it on said shoulders,

a flexible bottom extending all over-below the floor some distance from the same and having holes fitting, the legs and surrounded each with an embos'sment about the leg, said bottom being.- of rubber or similar elastic material and extending upwardly about the lower end of the body, and means for leading water off from said bottom.

dear the body, said 4 an laced below said cabinet, said door having its frame foldable, the door being secured between said strips, 5

the door being secured between said strips, of the frame, and means' on the moving ranged to partly straddle the corner post knee-jointed braces in the door, and a flexiadjacent thereto when the door is closed, a blestrand extending from said rod and out- 45 corner of the door guiding on said bar. In testimony whereof I aflix my signature,

5; A bath cabinet having a foldable frame inpresence of two witnesses. v and flexible back, sides and front secured J H IDE thereto; said frame comprising four corner I posts, horizontal upwardly foldable 'knee- I \Vitnesses: jointed braces extending between each two S. L. SQUIERS, 7

posts and having their ends pivoted to the HERBERT ZIMMERMAN.

Copies at this patent may be obtained for five cents each, by addressing the w 1,081,565 3 4.v A bath cabinet having a-foldable frame posts, a flexible door in the front side oft-he and flexible back sides and front secured cabinet, said door having its frame foldable, thereto; said frame comprising four corner it being composed of horizontal upwardly 30 posts, vhorizontal upwardly foldable kneetold-able knee-jointed braces having oac'hone jointed braces extending between each two end pivoted to, one of the cori ier posts, two posts and having their ends pivoted to the vertical metal strips pivoted" to the other. posts, a flexible door'in the front side of the ends of the braces, the flexible material of it being composed of horizontal upwardly and edge portions of'the strips projecting foldable knee-jointed braces having each beyond the material to form a groove arone end pivoted to one of the corner posts, ranged to partly straddle the corner post adtwo vertical metal strips pivoted to the other jacent thereto when ,the door is closed, a ends of the braces; the flexible material of foldable horizontal bar near the lower end "10 and edge portions of the strips projecting lower corner of the door guiding on sau beyond the material-to form a groove arbar, a Weighted vertical rod' connecting the foldable horizontal bar near the lower end of ward over the top 'of the front side portion the frame and means on the moving lower above the doorln Commissioner of Patents,

Washington, D. C. 

